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The jaw-droppingly qualified “America First” Main Street economics team continues to be brilliantly assembled. It is now transparently obvious that Donald Trump has a very specific strategy to navigate the mine field created by three decades of Main Street erosion.

President-elect Donald Trump, announced Wednesday the head of the newly created White House National Trade Council: Peter Navarro, an economist who supports a hardline approach toward relations with China. Trump also named business mogul Carl Icahn a special adviser to the President on regulatory reform.

“I read one of Peter’s books on America’s trade problems years ago and was impressed by the clarity of his arguments and thoroughness of his research,” Trump said in a statement, possibly referring to Navarro’s 2011 book “Death By China.”

“He has presciently documented the harms inflicted by globalism on American workers, and laid out a path forward to restore our middle class. He will fulfill an essential role in my administration as a trade advisor,” Trump said in a statement.

Trump also named business mogul Carl Icahn a special adviser to the President on regulatory reform.

Trump was expected to announce additional choices for yet-to-be-filled White House positions in the coming days, his transition team said on a conference call Wednesday morning.

Trump spent the previous day meeting with candidates for his unfilled cabinet positions, including prospective hires to run the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. (read more)

SO TIRED by the KinksSo Tired of Winning
So tired
Tired of winning
Tired of winning it’s true
I was a losing soul
I won nothing and always blue
But Trump kept to that winning
All of the time
What can’t the USA do?

I am 65 yr old and giddy with happiness over this man! That God in his mercy heard our prayers over the years. Many nights I prayed for God to give us one more chance to restore our Nation and her good people. I praise the Father for sending us Trump in our darkest hour. Call me a loon but Trump has the hand of God on him, this I truly believe! Merry Christmas to all and thank you for this blessed site.

Psalms 27
4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.

Money4mesite: I totally agree, God the Father has His hand on our PE Trump. Every praise is to our God! I too spent many hours praying the same prayer that you, and I and so many of our brothers & sisters prayed throughout this election cycle. I am overjoyed, elated and as Joe Dan Gorman said, frazzled too. 🙏🏻😊

With all this news today — Boeing and Lockheed CEO visits, negotiating along with admirals and generals to see what THEY recommend, Buy/Hire America trade policy — I am literally in tears right now — tears of joy that my grandchildren may have a better life than I saw for them just a few years ago.

It’s a joyous time for America! I share in your tears of joy, our prayers have been answered and the future looms bright for us for the first time in many, many years. We must continue to pray for protection of and success for Donald Trump. Many people are out to get him, the don’t like the egg they have on their faces. With the electoral victory behind us, now it is time to move forward. It was truly an act of God, in my book, that the Clinton machine didn’t win the Presidency.

Not true. Trump offered the Education Secretary position to the Head of Liberty University, Fallwell, and he turned it down because he couldn’t do it for more than 2 years or Liberty would have had to install a new President.
Also, Rex Tillerson is a staunch Christian. Also, Huckabee has said several times he was offered a position but he turned it down.

Other than VP Pence, and NINE OTHERS on his cabinet who are devout Christians and Pro-lifers, you are right. Or maybe, not “Christian” enough for you? From HelloChristian.com:

Nine Members of Trump’s Cabinet Identify As Devout Christians
President-elect Donald Trump has now appointed nine members to the White House, each of whom profess publicly to be Christians. Is this a huge answer to prayer?

“For many years, we have prayed that God would raise up men and women of God to positions of leadership and influence in our country. However, since the end of the George W. Bush administration, there have been previous few answers to that prayer,” writes Author and Pastor David Murray. “Who would have thought that Donald Trump might be the answer to that prayer?”

At the heart of these appointments is Vice President Mike Pence who has previously said “My Christian faith is at the heart of who I am” and “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.” Then there is Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, who has previously tweeted “Christ’s sacrificial work provides an example for us all, and we join with the Psalmist in saying ‘You make known to me the path of life.’”

Then we’ve got Attorney General Jeff Sessions (who is a Sunday school teacher at his family’s church), and Housing and Urban Development’s Dr. Ben Carson, who believes that God spoke clearly to him that Trump would be president.

Further to this, there is Education’s Betsy DeVos, a Christian committed to bringing God’s ‘Kingdom’ through schooling. Then we have newly-announced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, EPA’s Scott Pruitt, CIA’s Mike Pompeo (whose family attends Eastminster Presbyterian Church), and Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley. They are all Christians!

The number of believers in the upper echelons of the Trump administration is quite incredible. Share this to encourage others!

Not true. But even if it were, would you want people to be appointed to positions that there were more qualified people available? Wouldn’t that be cronyism? Like the Dems? Didn’t many Christians in the primaries vote for Trump even though there were more “Christian” candidates? They voted for the person who would do the best job. Your comment about “Allau Akbared”, I believe is out of order.

I was never interested in politics before Sundance and CTH. Maybe because it was so mundane to me. But now I can’t get enough. Trump is setting an example for all of us to follow. Get off our asses and MAGA.

Yeah and here in CO we got our work cut out for us but there a a bunch of deplorable out there. I’m not normally a cap guy, but since Aug of last year I wear my red MAGA hat when shopping or eating out..Last night I wore my new red USA Trump hat to Red Robin for supper. As we were leaving a n older lady in the booth behind us tapped me on the shoulder and said “like your hat”. We had a short conversation, but my usual response is “we dodged a bullet”. I was going to forgo wearing the hat, but upon further contemplation, guess will continue.

Key phrase “get off our asses and MAGA”. In the end it’s up to us the American people to get out their and do our part to MAGA. The sad bag of goods sold in the past was that a President was going to do it for you. It doesn’t work like that. For any president. All a President can do is create the conditions for positive things to happen, it’s then up to the people to go out and make it happen.

Glad you’re following along, you’ve picked a good blog to follow. Sundance does a good job at explaining what can sometimes be confusing.

Yes I’m 78 but have a cat boarding business that keeps me active 8 – 10 hours a day but got signed copy of Trumps Art of the Deal and just his daily actions spur me on. I need to strive to make my business better – again he sets an example that makes me want to emulate.

I disagree. Cats and dogs are among the most loyal, evolved social beings on Planet Earth, followed by every other animal, with humans at the end of the line. I consider myself blessed to be here to service my cats, who are WAY smarter than I am. I wish Trump’s idiot sons, the ones who love slaughtering wildlife, would get the message. Ditto for the RNC, which is using the two Trump savage boys for fundraisers. Trump has already expressed his opposition to sport hunting; his charity gives tons of money to animal welfare causes. But his sons, especially Eric, are living on a prehistoric planet. No wonder Trump openly admits his favoritism for his beautiful daughter Ivanka.

President Trump appreciates that China has been pursuing an Economic Entanglement Strategy for DECADES. America’s Globalist Corporate and Congressional and Presidential TRAITORS have paved the way for them.

President Bill Clinton put China’s Strategy on STERIODS when he moved satellite launch technology to China, enabling them to cause a failed launch and then recover the payload to STEAL America’s best military and communications technologies.

China has embedded itself THROUGHOUT our STRATEGIC MILITARY & INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY CHAINS. They are so riddled with China “dependency holes” that they look like Swiss cheese. China could shut down entire defense systems and industries by disrupting deliveries or shipping defective products. We don’t have the capability to displace them.

Dr. Navarro will be IMMEDIATELY be putting the MADE IN USA strategy on a war-time footing to eliminate these massive dependencies and vulnerabilities.

I bet Boeing Pres had a bit of the vapors after his meeting with DJT today. No way they’re going to be building airplane manufacturing in China for the Chinese to steal technology before giving Boeing the boot.

Man, do I remember that l launch. Up to my….ears… in the development of that satellite. New technology that had never been done before. Clinton gave us the “high fast one” when he circumvented the ITARS regulation on that one…Launched in China.

As Carl famously told NYC Mayor “Big Bird” who at the bidding of his Teachers Unions promised to close Icahn’s highly regarded Charter schools, “Let him try, I’ve got more and better lawyers than he does.” It comes as no surprise that his schools remain open to this day!

The long decline in American manufacturing started in 1950’s when GATT allowed France to have an exemption for their then-unique VAT during trade agreements. France said it was too complicated to calculate VAT while considering how to level the playing field, and since France was the only country with a VAT, GATT gave them an exemption. There are now about 140 counties with a VAT, all of which have a distinct trade advantage versus USA.

Note that Trump started to mention the “unfair VAT” a few months ago, saying details were too complicated to discuss in his speech. I first learned about this in 2006 during as speech at a conservative conference in Reno in 2006, by Duncan Hunter, Sr. Note that Duncan Hunter, Jr. was one of the first Trump endorsers in Congress.

We need to REMOVE that exemption, not add our own VAT, and that takes a great deal maker. Know anyone???.

“…the American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition claims that any rebates or special taxes on imported goods should not be allowed by the rules of the World Trade Organisation. AMTAC claims that so-called “border tax disadvantage” is the greatest contributing factor to the $5.8 trillion US current account deficit for the decade of the 2000s, and estimated this disadvantage to US producers and service providers to be $518 billion in 2008 alone. Some US politicians, such as congressman Bill Pascrell, are advocating either changing WTO rules relating to VAT or rebating VAT charged on US exporters by passing the Border Tax Equity Act.

Footnote: in order to improve our standard of living, we have to MAKE STUFF and export it. Under our current “service-only” economic trend, we will all end up as either part-time burger flippers or baristas, serving only each other and buying all of our STUFF from other countries.

trump told him he was fully aware that boeing was a huge donor to hillary and knew with certainty that hillary would do a quid pro quo on doubling the charge for these planes. THAT’S what trump told thid guy straight up. maga.

That is the main issue about Boeing. They are currently building a state of the art aircraft factory in China, and they are planning on building the planes they sell to China IN CHINA.
So after Boeing gives the Chinese the latest manufacturing technology, and gives them the state of the art aircraft technology. it won’t be long before the Chinese make their own aircraft for themselves (no need for Bowing anymore) and also becomes a direct competitor to Boeing in the world market. I hope Trump can and will put a stop to this kind of transfer of our best technology to our adversaries.

Yes indeed, George True. Perhaps the simplest way to avoid this nonsense is to lay on every country with which we do business the same rules they lay on us in their country. Not prrfect, but it would be a good start. Also, if you sell a product at home at a certain price, you may not sell it for less than that in the US. And don’t wait years for it to drag the World Court or whatever; establish it as trade policy here.

I worked for Boeing for 27 years, and I can say with certainty that they really don’t care where they are located. Whatever loyalty to the Puget Sound area went away when Harry Stonecipher stole the company right from under Phil Condit’s limpid gaze. They been working madly on training programs and operational processes for decades and it has now paid off with a system that could teach a cardboard box how to make an airplane.

Don’t expect anything other than profit to motivate that company these days – and I speak not as a union member.

Yes, grateful Putin isn’t taking the bait. BHO is an unmitigated disaster, aided by traitors in Congress, commanded by the House of Saud, U.K. and others. No spine, and no interest in upholding the Constitution or protecting U.S. sovereignty and citizens of The Republic. 23 days left. He must be impeached, without regard for the time, effort or cost invested.

Out of the “dream team”, I suspect real full time JOBS will make a strong comeback!

Nearly 95% of all new jobs during Obama era were part-time, or contract

A new study by economists from Harvard and Princeton indicates that 94% of the 10 million new jobs created during the Obama era were temporary positions. The study shows that the jobs were temporary, contract positions, or part-time “gig” jobs in a variety of fields.

Thank you for sharing. I’ve been tearing hair for years over the way these incredibly dishonest administration hacks have perversely changed all the metrics for assessing things like unemployment. I hope against hope that DJT’s people will return these metrics to their original purposefulness even though the media would castigate the new administration for a “decline” in things like employment #’s. May I say for umpteenth time, I HATE these people!

I also hope he returns the actual measurements to the states. The fed empl agency took over ALL unemployment measurements and reporting from the states a few years ago. The state economists were not happy, but nobody noticed (except me.)

What many forget is the Main Street economy was the original economy. The Main Street economy was what enabled the Wall Street economy

When the Main Street economy roars, the country’s economy roars, which in turn helps the entire world in some form or another

Like capitalism, we’ve allowed the original intent of our economy to become perverted, hence you see the destructive Wall Street practices where they’re allowed to manipulate our system for profit while ruining the middle class economy

Both economies should work together for the benefit of #1, America First, & #2, for the mutual benefit of international partners, which will hopefully create a more peaceful & prosperous world

The days of globalist gluttony should be over. This world will always be for, of & by we the people, as long as we the people watch over it & act like the bosses we’re supposed to be

The WordPress (I think) ad at the top of this string keeps renewing itself and rerunning about every 30 seconds. My page is forced up to view that ad, then it keeps flipping me back to it for 10-15 seconds. Then it starts the cycle all over again. And again. And again. Etc.

Help, please re: WordPress. When I try to “Like” a post here, it takes me to WordPress which makes me ‘join’ by having to create a Web Page. Really??? I’ve tried this several times and don’t see any way around creating a Web site — which I’m not doing.

Dr. R – Thanks. I’m using Internet Explorer with Ghostery, Adblock Plus, AdMuncher and AdFender. I also clean up with Malwarebytes, Microsoft Security Essentials , and CCleaner. Still happens periodically. Better at some times, horrible at others.

Any special settings needed? . I just started popping up to the top again just before sending this reply.

Really impressed with the Carl Icahn nomination to … anything.
Icahn is a one man shop, certainly doesn’t want this kind of publicity.
I see that CNBC are already advertising him as “corporate raider”,
implying that if he doesn’t get his way, him and his buds (e.g. Ken Langone)
are going to march up the street, turn over some police cars and set them on fire.
This is what LOFOs know.
CNBC (and all of MSM) are more than happy to oblige.

Icahn will be a very impressive addition to the Trump Team.
Icahn is massive smart.

Well we have to wait to make it official, but President Trump is already in action. What he’s done in just a few weeks boggles the imagination. Wait till he takes the reigns on the 20th. Katie bar the door.

Now that the election is over and the Electoral College selection. The liberals cannot stop Trump from taking the Oath of Office. But as I watch their petulant whining and read their articles it becomes very clear.

Q: What is the Liberal Progressive Left’s worst fear?
A: Trump can be not just a successful President, but a very successful President.

Thanks to Obama’s 8 years, the bar is set pretty low. But you look at the cabinet & advisors he is building, people of success, people of action and people that will flip the Washington DC mess on its ears.

We all said “UGH” when Trump tapped Trikki Haley for the U.N. With Trump’s Boeing negotiations in full swing, I suspect that he wanted the TRUMP MAGA Lt. Governor of SC to be Governor since Boeing has a big Manufacturing plant there. More leverage and an ally there now, since Trikki is VERY WEAK. She is now in political Siberia where she can do little harm to Trump’s MANUFACTURING planning.